Dirk Zetzsche

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Dirk Andreas Zetzsche (born March 17, 1975 in Düsseldorf ) is a German lawyer , professor, legal scholar , attorney , and author .

Live and act

Dirk Zetzsche completed his Abitur in 1994 at the Humboldt Gymnasium in Düsseldorf and then studied law at the Heinrich Heine University . After the first state examination in law in 1999, he worked as a research assistant for Ulrich Noack (chair for civil law, commercial and business law) until 2003 , followed by a master's degree in law and economics (LL.M.) at the University of Toronto and in PhD in 2004. In 2006 the second state examination followed, in 2012 the habilitation . In 2011, Zetzsche was offered a chair for banking and financial market law at the Institute for Financial Services at the University of Liechtenstein . Since March 2016, Zetzsche has held the ADA chair for financial market law (inclusive finance) at the University of Luxembourg and at the same time non-executive director of the Institute for Corporate Law of the Law Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

Fields of activity

  • Company law (with a focus on corporate governance, shareholder rights, institutional investors)
  • private and public banking law
  • Investment law (with a focus on investment funds and asset managers)
  • Law of cross-border financial services
  • Antitrust law (with a focus on financial services)
  • Financial Technology Law (FinTech and RegTech)
  • Law and regulation of financial inclusion

Publications

Zetzsche is the author of more than one hundred and fifty publications in German and English. He has worked in an advisory capacity for various rule-setters and has been active in commissions, including projects for the European Commission , the European Parliament, the European Securities & Market Supervisory Authority (ESMA) and various national ministries and supervisory authorities. Zetzsche works a. a. together with various organizations on development aid issues, such as B. with the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, an association of the central banks of developing countries, for which he co-authored a report on FinTech for Financial Inclusion. The report was u. a. Adopted by the G24 governments at the Bali Summit as a strategy to promote digital financial inclusion.

In 2019, Zetzsche was listed for the first time by the Platform Social Science Research Network (SSRN) among the 10 most-read legal scholars worldwide, based on the number of hits in the last twelve months.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Université du Luxembourg: Dirk Andreas Zetzsche. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Literature by and about Dirk Zetzsche in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ^ Université du Luxembourg: Dirk Andreas Zetzsche. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
  4. ^ University of Düsseldorf: Prof. Dr. Dirk Zetzsche was awarded the Finanzkompass 2012 eV. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
  5. ^ Université du Luxembourg: Dirk Andreas Zetzsche . In: University of Luxembourg . ( uni.lu [accessed November 10, 2018]).
  6. ^ University of Düsseldorf: detailed view. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
  7. ^ Université du Luxembourg: Dirk Andreas Zetzsche. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
  8. ↑ G-24 / AFI Policymakers' Roundtable on Financial Inclusion at the Annual Meetings in Bali, Indonesia. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
  9. ↑ SSRN - SSRN Top 3,000 Law Authors. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Zetzsche, Dirk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zetzsche, Dirk Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jurist, attorney, jurist, professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf